Chapter 67

Madison

My heart is literally breaking in two, tears are welling in my eyes even though I am trying hard to stay strong, goodness’ sake, it’ll be a few days hopefully until Alex can come see me in Austin. I do smile faintly at the thought of him in some kind of professor disguise but for now, crowds are beginning to swarm around us as we enter the airport. “You know you didn’t have to come with me,” I say as he holds on to my hand tightly.

“I wanted to, I’ve got time to get to the airstrip, it’s only five minutes from this terminal.” Alex chose to fly out with the guys otherwise his departing flight would have meant he’d needed to have flown out earlier this morning.

“Alex, Alex, Alex,” people are chanting, God doesn’t he ever get frustrated with this? Some blonde has shoved her way past me and flung herself at him. “Hey, steady on there, you’ve just knocked my girlfriend out of the way.”

“Yeah, but I love you, Alex. Please sign your name on my hand.” She has no remorse for almost kno